Gregory Highway

Gregory Highway
Gregory Developmental Road
Queensland
Gregory Highway (yellow on black), Gregory Developmental Road (green on black)
General information
Type Highway
Length 914 km (568 mi)
Route number(s)
  • State Route 63
  • (Gulf Developmental Road - Charters Towers)
  • A7
  • (Charters Towers - Springsure)
Former
route number		 National Route 55
(Charters Towers - Springsure)
Major junctions
North end Gulf Developmental Road
  Flinders Highway
Peak Downs Highway
Capricorn Highway
South end Dawson Highway, Springsure, Queensland
Location(s)
Major settlements Charters Towers, Belyando Crossing, Clermont, Emerald
Highway system
Highways in Australia
National Highway • Freeways in Australia
Highways in Queensland

The Gregory Highway is a state highway in Queensland that serves the major coal-mining centres of Central Queensland.[1] The highway was named after Augustus Gregory, an early explorer.

It runs southward from Quartz Blow Creek, a point 31 kilometres west of Mount Surprise on the Gulf Developmental Road, via Charters Towers, to Springsure, over 900 kilometres away.[2] The northern section of 742 kilometres is designated by the state government as the Gregory Developmental Road. The shorter southern section between Clermont and Springsure (172 kilometres) is designated the Gregory Highway. As of 2015, the first 117 kilometres between the Gulf Developmental Road via Einasleigh to the Lynd Junction are unsealed and may be corrugated. The next section to Charters Towers has been upgraded from single lane to mostly dual-laned bitumen.[2] The road is used by many road trains.

List of towns along the Gregory Developmental Road/Highway

See also

Australian Roads portal

References

  1. ↑ Queensland Government - Department of Transport and Main Roads - Maps
  2. 1 2 Hema, Maps (2007). Australia Road and 4WD Atlas (Map). Eight Mile Plains Queensland: Hema Maps. pp. 10&13. ISBN 978-1-86500-456-3.


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